design-distill SKILL.md skillA
design-distill from broomva/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- broomva/skills
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- MIT
Distill a visual style from reference sites/products the user likes, then articulate it into a validated, dual-mode design system and a ready-to-run Claude Design ("Create Design System") handoff. Crystallized from the agents-dashboard run (checkit on handrovermeulen/Obsidian-Dashboard → moodboard → dual-mode tokens → Claude Design brief). It is a COMPOSITION skill — it fires existing tools (agent-browser capture, the Obsidian-Dashboard moodboard method, P18 format discipline, P11 dogfood…
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What the file says
# design-distill — references → design system → Claude Design
Turn "I like the look of these sites" into a **measured**, dual-mode design
system plus a **diff-ready Claude Design brief** — without ever inventing a
colour or font.
## The one rule
> **Measured, not inferred.** Never describe a reference's palette or type from
> what a screenshot *looks like*. Extract the **computed styles** with a headless
> browser and report the hex/font you measured. The moodboard method's
> *"describe only what you see"* constraint is enforced by measurement, not by
> the model's eye. A palette value with no `getComputedStyle` provenance is a
> bug, not a description.
Corollary (no-ask-back, inherited from checkit): when the user shares references
with a terse directive ("use these", "a mix of those two"), infer the design
intent, state it in one line, and proceed. Surface costly/irreversible forks
(hero device, accent hue, scaffold target) as **ranked next steps with a
recommended default** — proceed on the default for reversible token-level work.
## Pipeline (what `/design-distill <refs>` does)
1. **Ingest + declare intent** — one line: *"Distilling <refs> into a
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How to install
mdr add broomva/skills/design-distill@sha256:2967d748cad5fe1fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260720.70470b6, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
broomva/skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4zchjzf5xkm2qu7a GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=broomva/skills/design-distill GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2967d748cad5fe1f82f8743849ea4d81f31730368540f137055105ea309f53db
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.